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A STROLL WITH KEATS 



ILLUSTRATED 



FRANCES CLIFFORD "BROWN 



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BOSTON 

TICKNOR AND COMPANY 
I 886 



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Places of nestling- ^reen for poets made. — Story of Rimini. 

I STOOD tiptoe upon a little hill, 
The air was cooling, and so very still, 
That the sweet buds which with a modest pride 
Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, 
Their scanty-leaved and finely-tapering stems, 
Had not yet lost the starry diadems 
Caught from the early sobbing of the morn. 
The clouds were pure and white as flocks new-shorn, 
And fresh from the clear brook ; sweetly they slept 
On the blue hills of heaven, and then there crept 
A little noiseless noise among the leaves, 
Born of the very sigh that silence heaves ; 
For not the faintest motion could be seen 
Of all the shades that slanted o'er the green. 
There was wide wandering for the greediest eye. 
To peer about upon variety ; 
Far round the horizon's crystal air to skim, 
And trace the dwindled edgings of its brim ; 
To picture out the quaint and curious bending 
Of a fresh woodland alley never-ending : 



A STROLL IVLTLI KEATS. 6 

Or by the bowery clefts, and leafy shelves, 

Guess where the jaunty streams refresh themselves. 

I gazed awhile, and felt as light and free 

As though the fanning wings of Mercury 

Had play'd upon my heels: I was light-hearted, 

And many pleasures to my vision started ; 

So I straightway began to pluck a posy 

Of luxuries bright, milky, soft and rosy. 

A bush of May-flowers with the bees about them ; 

Ah, sure no tasteful nook could be without them ! 

And let a lush laburnum oversweep them, 

And let long grass grow round the roots, to keep them 

Moist, cool, and green ; and shade the violets, 

That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. 

Linger awhile upon some bending planks 

That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, 

And watch intently Nature's gentle doings: 

They will be found softer than ring-doves' cooings. 

How silent comes the water round that bend ! 

Not the minutest whisper does it send 

To the o'erhanging sallows : blades of grass 

Slowly across the chequer'd shadows pass. 

Why, you might read two sonnets ere they reach 

To where the hurrying freshnesses aye preach 



A STROLL WLTH KEATS. 

A natural sermon o'er their pebbl}' beds ; 
Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, 
Staying their wavy bodies 'gainst the streams, 
To taste the luxur}^ of sunny beams 
Temper'd with coolness. . 

Were I in such a place, I sure should pray 

That nought less sweet might call my thoughts away, 

Than the soft rustle of a maiden's gown 

Fanning away the dandelion's down ; 

Than the light music of her nimble toes 

Patting against the sorrel as she goes. 

What next? a tuft of evening primroses, 
O'er which the mind may hover till it dozes ; 
O'er which it well might take a pleasant sleep. 
But that 'tis ever startled by the leap 
Of buds into ripe flowers ; or by the flitting 
Of divers moths, that aye their rest are quitting; 
Or by the moon, lifting her silver rim 
Above a cloud, and, with a gradual swim. 
Coming into the blue with all her light. 

But now no more — 
My wandering spirit must no farther soar. 




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